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- As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce,…
- Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make…
- The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight…
- To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for…
- This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work…
- The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
- As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only…
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